David Gergen actually said...

"If it collapses, then you can get the hard-liners, the Islamic militants can actually have more power in the region."

"He got the talks started again. And, secondly, he got Arab nations to the table. That has not happened before."

"He did try to stay out of this. He thought what Clinton, Bill Clinton, did at the end of his administration, trying to get a peace deal right at the end, was a very bad thing."

"McClellan is not saying or suggesting that the president sent him out to lie, but he certainly heavily suggests that the president was complicit, that the president was somehow an enabler in him going..."